Inverted mouse...reteaching yourself to play

SixTwoSix · 14 Nov 2014 at 15:37

I play all my games with the mouse inverted, up is down and vice versa.

I do this without exception and really struggle to play with up as up and down as down.

I've had a few peeps telling me my FPS game would improve significantly if I was to re-teach myself to play the correct way.

I'm not the best FPS player but i'm wondering if there's anything in it if I was to try and get myself used to the other way. However i've been PC gaming for 17 years, it's a lot to unlearn.

Thoughts?

SixTwoSix · 14 Nov 2014 at 15:44

neoglow said:
Have u been playing flight sims the whole time? I can't imagine playing an FPS with the mouse inverted...it just feels wrong. Even in the days of keyboard only before mouse looking became the norm I had up as up and down as down. How have you managed to play inverted for so long?!?

Never played a flight sim in my life, it's just something i've always done, I can't explain why.

SixTwoSix · 14 Nov 2014 at 15:48

FlyingFish said:
Stick to what you know unless you suck at aiming in shooters. I used to use my mouse that way, coming from early day flight sims and then moving onto fps's. I now aim using the mouse the correct way apart from when controlling anything to do with flight, then it's inverted

Mick

My aim is good, my reactions are slower than they used to be. However I chalk this up to getting older and also moving away from shooters a lot in recent years. I mainly play stuff like Arma 3 - Breaking Point/Epoch mods, occasionally BF4 on the shooter front.

SixTwoSix · 14 Nov 2014 at 21:16

rubberduck said:
The way I see playing inverted as 'making sense' is if you imagive that your hand was placed (flat) on top of the head of the person whos perspective you are playing the game through... natually you are behind them facing in the same direction as them. If you wanted their head to pivot in order for them to look upwards you would move your pull your hand towards you... Likewise if you wanted there perspective to look down you would push your hand away.

Thankyou...you've managed to give a valid reason for why I do it that I didn't even know

Next time i'm told to play the right way, i'll explain what you've said and they can do one!